AMITPC – March 2025 Meetup

As promised, here are the links and slide decks for the topics covered during the Adelaide Microsoft IT Pro Community User Group from 4th March 2025.

In addition, here is the recording, which includes Zane Rodman’s presentation: Getting Started with Microsoft Global Secure Access: https://youtu.be/HtL3LSxRXSg


Speaker Bio: Zane Rodman

Zane is an experienced IT consultant with over 20 years of expertise, primarily in Microsoft technologies.

His passion for anything tech drives him to deliver services that enhance efficiency and foster innovation.

Zane takes pride in sharing his knowledge and experience to help others maximise the benefits of these technologies.

Zane Rodman
Consultant at Data#3
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zrodman/



What’s New? – Podcast!

ps://www.linkedin.com/company/oobcasts
https://www.youtube.com/@OOBCasts
https://open.spotify.com/show/6OIu5urlxDy26s3ia7ihLU
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1789671447

https://linktr.ee/andrewoyoung
https://linktr.ee/shehanjp
https://linktr.ee/antoporter


What’s New? – Teamwork

SharePoint January Event now on demand
https://aka.ms/SharePointEvent/microsite

SharePoint Hackathon
https://aka.ms/SharePoint/Hackathon


What’s New? – More-dern Work

Copilot Camp – Agents!
https://microsoft.github.io/copilot-camp/

Viva Engage Masterclass
https://aka.ms/VivaEngage/Masterclass

M365 Copilot deployment blueprint
https://aka.ms/Copilot/OversharingBlueprintPDF or https://aka.ms/Copilot/OversharingBlueprintPPT

Secure by Default with Purview and protect against oversharing

Microsoft Purview Deployment Card by Ray Reyes – Updated


What’s New? – Security

Dynamic Watermarking for Sensitivity Labels
Current UPN, many views, cross platform

Microsoft Intune Connector for Active Directory
New version from May 2025 that uses Managed Service Account
Instead of local SYSTEM account

Exchange Online Tenant Outbound Email Limits
Daily limits for external messages

Authentication methods migration wizard
Let’s you automatically migrate methods from Legacy MFA and SSPR polices to converged auth methods policy
Legacy method will be retired in September 2025.
Wizard configured the auth methods based on what you have for MFA and SSPR as opposed to do this manually previously.
Legacy registration – users had to register for both SSPR and MFA separately.

QR Code Sign in – Public Preview
Ideal for frontline users (not recommended for Info users)
Printed QR code (possibly attached to the name badge) and a temp PIN provided to each user which needs to change at the sign-in bound to the QR only.

QR Code Sign in – Public Preview
Connect with Conditional Access Policies
Change the way of signing in out of corp network
Replacing the QR codes when they are lost or stolen


What’s New? – Windows

The Value of Windows Enterprise – webinar series
https://aka.ms/Windows/ValueOfEnterpriseWebinars

Windows 11, version 24H2 now broadly available

Windows Skilling Snacks

Microsoft Technical Takeoff: Windows and Intune
https://aka.ms/TechnicalTakeoff


What’s New? – End of Support

What comes out of Support in October 2025:

Windows 10

Office 2016/2019

Exchange 2016/2019

Skype for Business 2015/2019


Security Ninja Training


Microsoft Student Accelerator – Michelle Sandford
https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/anz-microsoft-student-accelerator/

Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors (MLSA)
https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-US/studentambassadors


Adelaide Microsoft Community


What’s Coming? – Events

Microsoft Technical Takeoff: Windows and Intune – 4th -> 7th March 2025 https://aka.ms/TechnicalTakeoff

SharePoint Hackathon – 4th -> 18th March 2025
https://aka.ms/SharePoint/Hackathon

Dicker Data Partners: Data Fabric Workshop – Adelaide – 19th March 2025 https://www.dickerdata.com.au/microsoft/data-fabric-workshop-2025

Digital Workplace Conference New Zealand – 18th -> 19th March 2025 – https://www.dwcnz.co.nz/

AI-Powered Business Applications Bootcamp – 18th -> 20th March 2025 – https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/anzbizappsbootcamp/

Microsoft MVP Global Summit (Seattle) – 25th -> 27th March 2025

Unlock New Opportunities with Microsoft Places! – 11:30AM 27th March 2025 – https://aka.ms/M365_Places_Webinar-Register

Global AI Community Bootcamp (various) – March – April 2025 – https://globalai.community/bootcamp

Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Las Vegas) – 6th -> 8th May 2025 – https://aka.ms/M365Con25

Microsoft Build (Seattle) – 19th -> 22nd May 2025 – https://build.Microsoft.com 


What’s Coming? – AMITPC 2024

Apr: Data Security & Copilot – TBC

May: Hybrid Identity Landscape – TBC

Jun: DevSecOps – TBC

Jul:

Aug:

Sep:

Oct: Cognitive Services – Daniel Brown

Nov:

Dec : TBC #AMC Post Ignite Joint Event


Tune in again next month during our Meetup, or catch the notes here!

If you would like to present or have a topic to request, please use this form!


Links!

https://microsoft.github.io/copilot-camp/

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/viva_engage_blog/introducing-viva-engage-masterclass-your-guide-to-the-viva-engage-essentials/4365635?wt.mc_id=MVP_324901

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/intunecustomersuccess/microsoft-intune-connector-for-active-directory-security-update/4386898?WT.mc_id=MVP_324901

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftmechanicsblog/copilot-control-system-explained/4386524?WT.mc_id=MVP_324901

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/introducing-exchange-online-tenant-outbound-email-limits/4372797?WT.mc_id=MVP_324901

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-security-blog/general-availability-dynamic-watermarking-for-sensitivity-labels-in-word-excel-a/4382614?WT.mc_id=MVP_324901

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilotblog/microsoft-365-copilot-for-stock-technical-analysis/4378461?WT.mc_id=MVP_324901

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/viva_learning_blog/microsoft-copilot-academy-extensibility-features-now-generally-available/4378554?WT.mc_id=MVP_324901

https://aka.ms/SharePoint/Hackathon

https://aka.ms/TechnicalTakeoff

https://aka.ms/VivaEngage/Masterclass

https://aka.ms/Copilot/OversharingBlueprintPDF

https://aka.ms/Copilot/OversharingBlueprintPPT

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